agostino | Medicine, ancient and modern

One more day in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Posted by agostino | Apr 29, 2016 | Posts |

It’s nice to have a pal. Who wouldn’t agree? As my latest stay in the Vatican library...

Is Love a Disease? Lovesickness and early medicine

Posted by agostino | Feb 14, 2016 | Posts |

Falling in love is nice, isn’t it? But love is also a subversive force, capable of compromising...

Beauty, Courage and the Greeks: why we should care about the death of Cecil the lion

Posted by agostino | Jun 28, 2015 | Posts |

I wrote this blog as I was trying to understand why the death of Cecil the lion upset me (and many others) so much. The link between Galen and Cecil, I admit, is not perfectly obvious. In most of his texts, Galen (129-c.216 AD)...

Who was Pseudo-Galen?

Posted by agostino | Apr 12, 2015 | Posts |

This is an odd question I was asked many times. And every time, I was at a loss to answer! ‘Er,...

The Torture of Therapeutics in Rome: Galen on Pigeon Dung

Posted by agostino | Feb 12, 2015 | Posts |

Hi everyone! This is a blog post I just wrote for the Recipes Project: http://recipes.hypotheses.org/ Beware, it’s about poo… are you sure you want to read it at lunchtime?